How We Tested

After we had run SYSmark 2002 we used Windows Media Encoder 9 to encode a 416MB AVI movie file in WMV 9 format which finishes up 4MB in size. Next we used iTunes 4.71 to encode a 22MB MP3 (128kbps) audio file to AAC format at 128kbps. Finally we opened a 47.2MB TIFF in Adobe Photoshop CS 8 and resized it and increased the resolution so it grew to 658MB in size.